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Prioritising health research is an important mechanism for improving health, yet much of this research money is wasted, says the University of Nottingham

A number of teaching unions have come together to tackle the looming recruitment crisis and to improve the financial outlook for schools… The public sector has been through the wringer over the past few years. In fact, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to decide which section has come out worse. Austerity...

Historic England archaeologists have uncovered several Bronze Age dwellings have been found whilst digging on a farm in Cambridgeshire

Tying down the number of steps kids take is not a simple thing to do and poses more than just a few challenges. Yet, the measure of physical activity has the potential to be a very useful tool in countering the obesity epidemic. The ebook highlights how the University of...

Affordable housing provider, Wates Living Space, is celebrating the completion of its 1,000th kitchen refurbishment for Wrexham County Borough Council’s Housing Service, marking a key milestone in a programme of property improvements across the district... Wates commenced delivery of the £9.8m project in January this year, which is seeing residents...

Plans for a new world-renowned health and life sciences centre has been revealed using the former home of pharmaceutical firm Novartis

A new survey has revealed that while half of county councils provide a good online service for older people to apply for bus passes, a number fall short… Applying for an older person’s bus pass could be relatively straightforward or somewhat difficult, depending upon where you live. A new report from...

Now we see it happen again: an apparently new term appears in the sky of psychiatry: "peer work".  It means that now ill people treat the ill; and what are the professionals, also called skilled persons, going to do? They are, of course, still allowed to treat, but where...

Brighton and Hove City Council is considering changing the summer holidays to allow family vacations to occur during off-peak times… The issue of school holidays is one that has been debated endlessly. Vacationing during July and August costs considerably more than at any other time of the year, putting a...

Freelance writer Russell Bowes discusses the potential of solar power in meeting the UK’s energy demands... Following the momentous decisions made at the COP21 talks in Paris where virtually all nations came together and agreed to limit climate change to no more than two degrees and also to reduce carbon dioxide levels...

Private properties in Wrexham County Borough, North Wales are to receive support to help tackle fuel poverty in low income households... Wrexham County Borough Council’s Housing Service have secured funding from the Welsh Government’s Warm Homes Arbed energy performance investment programme. The programme was set up in 2009 to help eradicate...

Christa Sedlatschek, Director at the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work outlines how musculoskeletal disorders affect workplaces across Europe…  Across Europe, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most common occupational safety and health (OSH) risks in the workplace. They are found across many sectors, including agriculture, construction,...

Super-heavy chemical elements discovered by scientists from Russia, the US, and Japan have been added to the periodic table

More than 70,000 homes and business have access to high-speed fibre broadband in Wiltshire thanks an Online Programme… The Wiltshire Online Programme is a multi-million pound partnership between Wiltshire Council, BT and the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme to deliver broadband to more rural parts of the county. People in hundreds...

Under new plans announced by the government, all schools will be required to put in place strengthened measures to protect children from online harm… The new plans include protecting children from cyber bullying, pornography and the risk of radicalisation, following recent events that have shown the risks to young people...

The Secretary of State for Transport has today opened the final stretch of road which completes the eastern bypass around Crewe… The new 1.1KM long duel carriageway cost £26.5m to build and forms a valuable link between the A500 Hough-Shavington bypass and the A5050 Weston Road. It is expected to unlock...

Tendring District Council (TDC) in Essex are considering a new scheme which would charge vulnerable people for help if they have a fall in their home… The new service aims to provide a prompt response from specially trained staff as part of a package under the Council’s Careline scheme. Careline offers...

More than 750,000 people who were previously long-term unemployed have found a job through the government’s Work Programme, industry figures have shown… New national statistics released today show that nearly half a million (482,000) secured lasting employment of 3 months or more. Meanwhile the proportion of the latest participants achieving a...

Radical new measures have been announced by the government to help tackle homelessness and protect the most vulnerable people in society… The package of measures announced by the Communities Minister today will include: maintaining and protecting homelessness prevention funding for local authorities, through the provisional local government finance settlement totally...

A new study suggests that cancer is not largely down to bad luck but overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors… The study in the journal Nature used revealed that only 10-30 per cent of cancers were down to the way the body naturally functions or luck. A team of doctors from...